KEY business figures in the city have shown their support for Liverpool-based cancer charity the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation (RCLCF).

Sir Philip Carter, life president of Everton FC and chair of trustees of RCLCF; Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson; and Max Steinberg, chief executive of Liverpool Vision, posed with chest X-rays as part of a campaign for the foundation.

The images will be used to help raise awareness of early detection of lung cancer, the most common cancer worldwide.

In the UK alone lung cancer causes around 35,000 deaths a year.

Paula Chadwick, interim chief executive of the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, said: “It is great for the charity to have this backing.”